Source: TV Squad (blog) (Original Article)
Battlestar Galactica creator Ron Moore’s doomed Fox sci-fi pilot Virtuality is finally getting a DVD release. The pilot, billed as a TV movie when it premiered last year, is heading to DVD on May 4.
Fox showed little faith in the intriguing drama that followed a crew of astronauts haunted by a malfunctioning VR system and a bit of space madness. After ordering several changes to the show in order to make it more “mainstream,” the network scrapped plans for a full series and dumped the premiere on a random Friday night last June with little promotion.
Needless to say, nobody watched.
It’s a shame, since the two-hour pilot showed a lot of promise. The story and tone echoed some of the better moody and intelligent sci-fi flicks to hit theaters recently, like Moon, Steven Soderbergh’s Solaris and Danny Boyle’s Sunshine.
Judging by the premiere, Virtuality was primed to explore some truly intriguing and complex ideas and themes. It also promised to deliver a compelling mystery, decent thrills, and some biting media satire. (Thankfully, some of those concepts are still alive on Moore’s Caprica.)
The cast (including Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Clea DuVall, Joy Bryant, and Sienna Gullory) was superb. And director Peter Berg offered a sleek and haunting cinematic visual style that perfectly matched the show’s surreal tone.
I’m looking forward screening it on DVD, even though I know that cliffhanger ending is gonna drive me nuts again.
We don’t have a list of special features for the DVD yet, and we’ve heard nothing about a Blu-ray version. But you can check out cheap domstic flights from Mackay to Gold Coast the box cover art below, courtesy of Movieweb: